“Often, the cost of American freedom is that we, as a society, don’t address problems prophylactically; we don’t provide a social network that would catch us in case of failure, disease, misfortune.”
“At first, I was unsure if this was the right starting place for the book. I feared that my obsession with yogurt making would not be interesting enough to a reader and they would put my book down.”
“Some people are comfortable in a very nebulous space. They’re much more comfortable in the first person voice because it affords spreading across time. I’m not that kind of writer.”
